Charleston Boneyard Beach Botany Bay Edisto SC

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When sea levels rise and sands shift, maritime forests fall to the elements. At Botany Bay Plantation near Charleston, SC, the ocean has reclaimed part of the island, consumed trees and left them either uprooted and scattered like old bones, or standing as sculptural remnants of trunks and roots standing on the tide line. This tree, with seemingly open and uplifted arms, is part of the boneyard or skeleton forest at Botany Bay, Edisto Island, SC.